[jcifs] authentication against workgroup & not domain possible?

[stefaan]

I'm using version version 0.9.7

Yes. It is just as you said. Either disabling the guest account or 
setting a password for it lead to desired results.
Thanks,
Stefaan Nachtergaele


Eric Glass wrote:
Eric Glass wrote:

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>>Thanks for your reply Eric. What you said works... somewhat. I'm getting
>>odd behaviour:
>>"stefaan" is a user on my machine and his password is "".
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>>auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("", "stefaan", "");               works
>>auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("", "stefaan", "asdfasdf");      throws a SmbAuthException
>>auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("", "asdfasdf", "asdfasfd");      works
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>>The first two seems logical, the last does not. Also other non-existing account details do not throw a SmbAuthException!
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>>Is it maybe defaulting to a guest account? What am I missing?
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>Quite possibly; you could disable the Guest account on the machine in
>question to see (I think you can also set the password on Guest, and
>then any mapped accounts would need to authenticate with that
>password).  What version of jCIFS are you using?  I believe Mike put
>in something to throw an exception when this happens (i.e. disallow
>guest completely).
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>Eric
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